I didn't have any items scheduled to go off last night, but I started getting 'Time to relist'
notices on nearly every item that was listed. Thinking maybe I miss read the end time, I went about
relisting each one, but soon realized that the Auto Relist for 8 weeks check box is gone?
I then went back to other items, many of which I know said 2, 3, and 4 days to go, are now ending in sequence all at once.
This is happening on four accounts all at once. (I handle 6 accounts at work).
A week ago I had a few items that I could have sworn had a few days left that ended early with only one bid.
They were listed as a 7 day auction with BIN, I checked one particular item because a buyer asked if he could pick it up vs. having it shipped and it was set to go off on Sat. morning. It ended on Wed night with the single bidder being the only bid.
I've been sticking to mostly all auction items because Fixed Price items rarely sell, they don't get any exposure unless someone finds one of my items and hits 'Buyers other items'. FP items don't seem to show up in any search either and I've had same items sell as auction items over and over for more while the identical item sits as a fixed price item for months.
Their search engine is either broken, flawed in a big way, or they're somehow shoving the smaller seller's items out of the way somehow.
I had a similar incident as a buyer, a seller not too far from me who apparently just started listing here had about 30 items listed. I happened to find one of his items while scrolling to find one of my own ads.
I hit on one of his buy it now sales, and while I was there I looked over his other items for sale. I bought two more. I ended up talking to the guy after a shipping issue came up, and he tells me he was surprised that with almost 200 items up I was his only sale in four months. His prices were good and the items were what I'd consider of high interest to collectors. While talking to the guy on the phone, I tried searching for his other items and got only 6 items. He told me he had nearly 200. I tried advanced searching his user name, and it came up as 'not found' despite having his list of items showing on another screen.
The only way I could get at most of his items was to enter the exact item number.
Another issue I'm seeing is that some of our ads at work that I list are showing up in vertical stack on the screen, others' are normal. When I open some ads, the add text and pics are being displaced one word per line all to the far left, even though all were listed the same way. Even those with minimal text did the same thing. I even let a few of them end without a relist and re-wrote the ad trying to fix that but some still showed up like that.
I also find that some ads, not just mine don't show up correctly on older computers, my personal laptop is still running Windows 8, , some ads won't show pics, some show up with the format or layout all screwed up, others won't load beyond the first 1/3 top view of the ad. This has been an issue for a few months, now I see it happening on my home computer which runs Win 10 and it only a few years old.
Thinking this all could be due to the pending new listing tool taking effect, I clicked on the button to use the new version listing tool.
I immediately found that nearly all the options are missing, all I could do was change the ad text, pics, or shipping amounts, all the other specifics were missing. When I clicked on the button it said I could switch back at any time, but when I tried to switch back it gave me a warning saying that option is not available.
So it looks like I'm stuck with the new, possibly unfinished listing tool they've been warning us about?
(Auto relist wasn't in the new listing tool either)
